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To the Editor: Chlamydia organisms belong to intracellular bacterial pathogens which are responsible for a range of human diseases, including trachoma, sexually transmitted disease, pneumonia, and other diseases.[1-5] Some Chlamydia-infected diseases were old and had long time impacted on the people’s health in China and worldwide, but people cannot put enough emphasis on it in local areas.[6] For example, although China had reached the goal of eliminating blinding trachoma in 2015, some sporadic cases also exist in rural counties. Moreover, few of studies were conducted on pneumonia induced by Chlamydia in China due to the present low prevalence and the limited detective methods. Sexually transmitted Chlamydia trachomatis infection also has notorious effects on reproduction, often asymptomatic and recurrent; thus, chlamydial infection diseases remain important public health concern over its prevention and control. This article focuses on the importance of caring about Chlamydia spp. and discusses taxonomy, prevalence, and laboratory diagnosis methods of Chlamydia diseases in China.